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V M. S. ROWLAND.

TOILET BOX.

No.'563,985. 4 PatntedJuly14,l896.

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WITNESSES:

UNITED STATES PATENT QFFICE.

MARY SCOTT ROWLAND, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

TOILET-BOX.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Fatent No. 563,985, dated July 14., 1896.

Application filed March 16, l 896.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, MARY Scorr ROWLAND, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, in the county and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Toilet-Boxes, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact specification.

This invention relates to toilet articles 5 and it consists especially of a receptacle for powder, rouge, and the like, which is adapted to be carried in a ladys pocket or muff, or to have a place upon the toilet-table. The particular object of the invention, however, is to pro vide in a compact and convenient form a combined box for containing face-powder in one compartment, a rouge-pad in another compartment, and a powder-puff in a third compartment. The compartment containing the powder is covered with a sifter consisting of a pivoted disk having perforations which can be opened or closed, as desired, and said compartment is closed above said sifter by a sliding or hinged lid. The other two compartments are closed bya hinged lid, which is provided on its inner side with a small mirror.

In order that my invention may be clearly understood and explained in detail, I have annexed hereto a sheet of drawings,in which-- Figure l is a perspective elevation of my said toilet-box, showing it open. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the box open. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal cross-sectional view of the box closed, taken on the line 3 3 of Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a cross-sectional view taken on the line 4: 4 of Fig. 2. Fig. 51s a cross-sectional View taken on the line 5 5 of Fig. 2; and Fig. 6 is a cross-sectional view similar to Fig. 4, but showing a modified construction.

In the figures, A indicates the combined box; a, a compartment which may contain a powder-puff; b, a compartment which may contain a rouge-pad, and c a receptacle to contain powder.

cl indicates the walls of the box, which serve, with the partitions e and f, to form the said compartments.

The compartment 0 is provided with a cover portion h, having a central depressed and perforated portion. A disk-plate a, having perforations corresponding to those in the portion h, is pivoted to said portion h at h Serial No. 583,483. We model.)

and adapted to be turned thereon to register said perforations or to cause the imperforate portions of each of said plates to close the perforations in the other of said plates. The depressed portion of cover it is hinged to wall d, as at j, and may be swung open upon said hinge. At the upper edge of each of the longitudinal walls of the box are arranged slideways It, and a sliding cover Zis adapted to be placed in said slideways and frictionally held therein. The inner end of said cover lis depressed at Z to pass under the cover of an adjacent portion of the box, and the outer end of said cover Zis turned down, as at Z to effect a better closing.

The compartments a and b are provided with a common lid m, which is hinged at m, and which, in closing, covers said compartments a and band the depressed edge Z of lid Z. On the inner side of said lid m is fitted a mirror at.

The cross-sectional view shown in Fig. 6 illustrates a modified construction of cover for the compartment 0. In said view a lid 0 for said compartment 0 is seen to be pivoted or hinged at 0, and also hinged upon the same pivot is the depressed plate h the said plate in other respects being similar to the plate h before referred to. It will be seen that the compartment 0 is provided with a seating c for said plate It or if, the said seating consisting of a right-angular flanged portion of the walls d of the box. The covers for said compartments may be provided with any efficient securing device, such as a springcatch, &c.

In the employment of the device, in order to utilize the powder in compartment 0, the powder-puff p is removed from compartment 17, the lid of compartment 0 is opened, the perforated disk 2' is rotated to register its perforations of plate It or 7L2, the box is reversed, and some powder is sprinkled upon the powder-puif; or, in order to provide a sufficient quantity of powder convenient for use without taking a surplusage, after the disk 1' has been made to register its perforations with those of plate It or h*, the lidZ or 0 is. closed, and upon shaking the box a small portion of powder will pass through said perforations and rests within the cavity formed by said disk 6, wherein the powder-puff can be inserted to take up such powder. In order that when shaking the powder through the perforations the powder may not pass outside the concavity of disk 2', I have surrounded said disk with a raised periphery or bead, which is in close contact with the lid Zor 0 when such lid is closed, thereby confining the powder to the compartment thus formed and keeping the box tidy.

Having now described my invention, I doclare that what I claim is 1. A combination t0ilet-box divided into three compartments, a single cover for two of said compartments, and a separate cover for the other of said compartments, one of said compartments having an. auxiliary cover, said auxiliary cover being perforated, and having means for opening and closing said perforations, substantially as set forth.

2. In a combination toilet-box havinga plurality of compartments, one of said compartments having an outer, movable cover and an inner, movable cover, said inner cover having a central concavity provided with perforations, a coineidently eoncaved disk having perforations, placed within the concavity of and pivotally secured to said inner cover, and means for registering'the perforations in said inner cover and disk, substantially as set forth.

3. In acombination toilet-boxhavingaplurality of compartments, one of said compartments having an inner and an outer lid, said inner lid having a recessed, perforated portion, both of said lids being hinged upon a common pivot, substantially as set forth.

In testimony that I claim. the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand this 3d day of March, 1896.

MARY SCOTT BO \VLAND.

lVitn esses:

F. \V. BARKER, WILLIAM J. DOLAN. 

